Necktie and method of making same

ABSTRACT

A necktie and the method of fabricating the necktie using only lines of stitches capable of being produced on a conventional household sewing machine and without requiring eversion of the necktie. Easily removed basting stitches are used temporarily to hold parts of the necktie in position to be finally united by a zigzag pattern of stitches.

United States Patent [191 Cowdrey NECKTIE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME [75] Inventor: Roy M. Cowdrey, Cranford, NJ.

[73] Assigne'e: The Singer Comapny, New York,

[22] Filed: Aug. 26, 1971 [21] Appl. No.: 175,308

[52] US. Cl. ..2/146 [51] Int. Cl. ..A4ld 25/06 [58] Field of Search ....2/146; 112/262, 268, 269, 63,

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,310,192 7/1919 Keys ..2/l46 1,943,300 l/1934 De Voe ..l12/425 5]March 20, 1973 2,010,247 8/1935 Smith ..2/146 3,585,951 6/1971 Bartosz.... 2,086,365 7/ 1937 Rehor ..2/146 FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 447,649 5/1936 Great Britain Q2/1415 Primary Examiner--.lordan Franklin Assistant Examiner-William L. Falk Attorney-Marshall J. Breen et a1.

[5 7] ABSTRACT A necktie and the method of fabricating the necktie using only lines of stitches capable of being produced on a conventional household sewing machine and without requiring eversion of the necktie. Easily removed basting stitches are used temporarily to hold parts of the necktie in position to be finally united by a zigzag pattern of stitches.

6 Claims, 7 Drawing Figures NECKTIE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Most necktie constructions in the prior art require specialized running stitch sewing equipment which is not available in household sewing machines. Prior attempts to provide a necktie construction or method of necktie fabrication which might be performed by the amateur seamstress have involved tedious stitching operations certain of which could be performed only by hand sewing or by a multiplicity of separate sewing machine operations. Most prior methods, moreover, involve eversion of the necktie which is at best a difficult operation; and when the necktie flares on both ends, can become well nigh impossible of easy accomplishment.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of this invention to provide a necktie construction and method of fabrication which may be accomplished in a novel and efficient manner by a home sewer using a conventional household sewing machine. The object of this invention is attained by a necktie construction and method of fabrication in which the necktie fabric is folded right side out with the edges of the necktie fabric superposed at one side of the resulting tube, and a stabilizing fabric, if desired, inserted between the necktie fabric edges. The superposed edges are then secured together by a line of zigzag stitches of which only selected stitches penetrate the fabrics to secure them into tubular form while alternate stitches are formed in the air to provide a chain beyond the fabric edges. The necktie is then finished by simply opening or busting the stitched seam and reorienting the opened seam from one side of the resulting tube to a position midway between the side edges of the necktie.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING In the accompanying drawing of a preferred embodiment:

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a strip of necktie fabric together with pieces of lining fabric as applied at the ends 'of the necktie fabric,

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the strip of necktie fabric of FIG. 1 with the lining fabricstitched at each end and each end turned inside out,

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the strip of necktie fabric of FIG. 2 with each side edge of the necktie fabric folded lengthwise upon itself and the folds secured by basting stitches,

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross sectional view of a portion of the fold edge of FIG. 3 taken substantially along line 4-4 of FIG. 3 and illustrating a preferred type of basting stitches,

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the necktie fabric together with a strip of stabilizing fabric as it is being stitched on a sewing machine into the assembled relation,

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the finished secured seam in the tie as the seam is being busted, and

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of one extremity of the finished necktie.

In FIG. 1, 11 indicates a necktie fabric blank as it is cut from a bolt of fabric for the manufacture of a fourin-hand" necktie. As illustrated, the necktie fabric blank is cut in one piece, but it might also be formed from two shorter fabric sections joined in the middle as is commonly done when the particular fabric to be used must be cut on the bias. The ends of the necktie may be finished in any conventional manner. FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate one conventional end finishing mode in which pieces of lining fabric 12 are placed in face-to-face relation on the necktie fabric blank 11 and secured by lines of straight stitches 13 as may be formed by a conventional sewing machine about the edges of the necktie ends. The corners are snipped off, as at 14, and the necktie ends are turned inside out resulting in finished ends of the necktie as shown in FIG. 2.

In the production of a necktie in acdordance with the present novel method, the longitudinal edges 20 and 21 of the necktie fabric 11 are enfolded along the fold lines 22 and 23 and the longitudinal folds are temporarily secured by lines of basting stitches 24. A basting stitch is a stitch which may be readily unravelled and removed. FIG. 4 illustrates a basting stitch which may be used and which may be formed by the use of any conventional sewing machine. This basting stitch comprises a straight lockstitch seam as produced by any conventional lockstitch sewing machine in which the tension on the two threads 25 and 26 of the lockstitch seam are purposely made unequal so that one of the threads 25 lies substantially straight along one surface of the work while all of the loops of the stitch concatenation are formed in the other thread 26 of the lockstitch seam. Particularly where stitch length is made large, this scam will unravel very readily.

After the necktie fabric edges are temporarily secured in longitudinally folded relation, the necktie is folded into the final tubular shape with the right side out by superposing the folded lines 22 and 23 along each side of the necktie and securing the necktie in tubular form by a line of stitches 30 lengthwise of the necktie.

If a stabilizing strip of fabric is desired within the tubular necktie, astrip of stabilizing fabric 40 maybe folded lengthwise along a fold line 41 and sandwiched between the enfolded edges of the necktie fabric 11, as shown in FIG. 5, with the fold lines 22, 23 and 41 in alignment.

The line of securingstitehes' 30 comprises a continuous line of machine formed stitches. In order to maintain the necktie in assembled tubular relation the stitches 30 preferably comprises a pattern of zigzag or alternate zigzag and straight stitches in which selected stitches are formed through the superposed enfolded side edges 20 and 21 of the necktie fabric and also through the folded stabilizing fabric 40, while alternate stitches are formed in the air beyond the fabric fold edges and result in a chain of concatenated threads 51 which do not penetrate the necktie fabric.

A wide variety of stitch patterns may: be used in the formation of the securing stitches 30 of the necktie. It is essential that selected ones of the stitches 30 should penetrate the fold edges of the necktie while alternate stitches or groups of stitches should be formed in air beyond the edges of the necktie. This stitch configuration not only provides for reorientation of the necktie fabrics after stitching but also provides a great resilience in the resulting stitched article so that the severe stresses which may result when a necktie is manipulated will not result in rupture of the securing stitches 30 or distortion of the necktie fabric.

Each end of the line of stitches 30 may be anchored by a tack 52 of plain zigzag stitches to prevent any ravelling of the securing stitches 30.

FIG. 6 and 7 illustrate the mode of finishing the necktie after the securing stitches have been complete. The necktie is finished by removing the basting stitches 24 from each of the enfolded side edges of the necktie fabric and busting the stitched seam 30 is shown in FIG. 6. By busting is meant that the fabric is turned at substantially right-angles about the line of stitches 30. FIG. 7 illustrates the disposition of the parts of the necktie after the stitched seam has been busted". The line of stitches 30 is preferably arranged midway between the edges of the finished necktie along the reverse side thereof. The fabrics may be stabilized in the position illustrated in FIG. 7 by a light ironing if desired.

An advantage of the method of this invention is that it may be practiced using a conventional sewing machine by the formation of a small number of straight runs of stitches on the machine and without any tedious hand sewing operation. Other than the preparation of the necktie ends no eversion of the necktie is required, and of course, alternate modes of finishing the necktie ends may be utilized in which such eversion will not be necessary. The necktie resulting from the practice of the above described method is characterized by great resilience and resistance to rupture of the securing stitched seam when necessary manipulation of the necktie is required and by a favorable absence of bulk in the necktie. The necktie of this invention lies flat and does not include any thick lengthwise seams so that the necktie may be ironed or pressed without exhibiting unsightly lengthwise ridges.

Having set forth the nature of this invention, what is claimed herein is:

1. The method of fabricating a necktie from a strip of necktie fabric comprising the steps of;

A. forming a tube of said necktie fabric right side out with the side edges superposed along one side of the tube,

B. forming a stitched seam joining said superposed side edges by forming one continuous line of stitches of which only selected stitches penetrate said side edges while alternate stitches are formed into a chain beyond the fabric edges,

C. opening said stitched seam, and

D. reorienting the tube of necktie fabric with said opened stitched seam located midway between the side edges of the finished necktie.

2. The method of fabricating a necktie from a strip of necktie fabric comprising the steps of;

A. enfolding the side edges of the necktie fabric,

B. forming a tube of said necktie fabric right side out with the enfolded side edges superposed along one side of the tube,

C. forming a stitched seam joining said superposed enfolded side edges by forming one continuous line of stitches of which only selected stitches penetrate said enfolded side edges while alternate stitches are formed into a chain beyond the fabric fold edges,

D. openingtsaid stitched seam, and E. reorien mg the tube of necktie fabric with said opened stitched seam located midway between the side edges of the finished necktie.

3. The method of fabricating a necktie as set forth in claim 2 including the steps of;

F. temporarily securing said enfolded side edges of the necktie fabric in enfolded position each by a continuous line of basting stitches, avoiding said basting stitches with said stitched seam joining said superposed enfolded side edges, and

G. removing said basting stitches after completion of said stitched seam joining said superposed enfolded side edges.

4. The method of fabricating a necktie as set forth in claim 1 including the steps of;

E. folding a strip of lining fabric in half lengthwise,

F. arranging said folded strip of lining fabric within said tube of necktie fabric with the fold edge of said lining fabric located between and in substantial alignment with the side edges of said necktie fabric, and

G. forming said stitched seam so that said selected stitches penetrate not only the side edges of said necktie fabric but also said fold edge of said lining fabric.

5. A necktie comprising a strip of necktie fabric formed lengthwise into a flattened tube with the opposed side edges of the strip of necktie fabric being arranged in coplanar relation abutting substantially along thecenterline of the flattened tube, said abutting side edges being joined by a continuous busted stitched seam comprising selected stitches extending transversely of said abutting side edges to secure together the opposed side edges of the strip of necktie fabric and alternate stitches formed completely exteriorly of said tube into a chain of stitches joining said selected stitches, said chain of stitches extending substantially parallel to the abutting side edges of said strip of necktie fabric.

6. A necktie as set forth in claim 5 including a flat strip of lining fabric extending lengthwise within said flattened tube of necktie fabric, said lining fabric strip being secured to said necktie fabric substantially along the centerline of the flat lining strip only by said selected stitches of said stitched seam.

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1. The method of fabricating a necktie from a strip of necktie fabric comprising the steps of; A. forming a tube of said necktie fabric right side out with the side edges superposed along one side of the tube, B. forming a stitched seam joining said superposed side edges by forming one continuous line of stitches of which only selected stitches penetrate said side edges while alternate stitches are formed into a chain beyond the fabric edges, C. opening said stitched seam, and D. reorienting the tube of necktie fabric with said opened stitched seam located midway between the side edges of the finished necktie.
 2. The method of fabricating a necktie from a strip of necktie fabric comprising the steps of; A. enfolding the side edges of the necktie fabric, B. forming a tube of said necktie fabric right side out with the enfolded side edges superposed along one side of the tube, C. forming a stitched seam joining said superposed enfolded side edges by forming one continuous line of stitches of which only selected stitches penetrate said enfolded side edges while alternate stitches are formed into a chain beyond the fabric fold edges, D. opening said stitched seam, and E. reorienting the tube of necktie fabric with said opened stitched seam located midway between the side edges of the finished necktie.
 3. The method of fabricating a necktie as set forth in claim 2 including the steps of; F. temporarily securing said enfolded side edges of the necktie fabric in enfolded position each by a continuous line of basting stitches, avoiding said basting stitches with said stitched seam joining said superposed enfolded side edges, and G. removing said basting stitches after completion of said stitched seam joining said superposed enfolded side edges.
 4. The method of fabricating a necktie as set forth in claim 1 including the steps of; E. folding a strip of lining fabric in half lengthwise, F. arranging said folded strip of lining fabric within said tube of necktie fabric with the fold edge of said lining fabric located between and in substantial alignment with the side edges of said necktie fabric, and G. forming said stitched seam so that said selected stitches penetrate not only the side edges of said necktie fabric but also said fold edge of said lining fabric.
 5. A necktie comprising a strip of necktie fabric formed lengthwise into a flattened tube with the opposed side edges of the strip of necktie fabric being arranged in coplanar relation abutting substantially along the centerline of the flattened tube, said abutting side edges being joined by a continuous busted stitched seam Comprising selected stitches extending transversely of said abutting side edges to secure together the opposed side edges of the strip of necktie fabric and alternate stitches formed completely exteriorly of said tube into a chain of stitches joining said selected stitches, said chain of stitches extending substantially parallel to the abutting side edges of said strip of necktie fabric.
 6. A necktie as set forth in claim 5 including a flat strip of lining fabric extending lengthwise within said flattened tube of necktie fabric, said lining fabric strip being secured to said necktie fabric substantially along the centerline of the flat lining strip only by said selected stitches of said stitched seam. 